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The Shaw Report - Do They Know What Helen Of Troy Really Looked Like · Lisa & Russell

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  Speaker 1: There's sure report on ninety six AIRFM. So here we go.
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  Speaker 1: Such an amiable world we live in. The Odyssey, Christopher
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  Speaker 1: Nolan's Greek mythology epic is drawing all sorts of racist, misogynistic,
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  Speaker 1: and transphobic comments on social media. Such a lovely place
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  Speaker 1: the Internet. The film is facing substantial online backlash, particularly
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  Speaker 1: targeting the casting choice of Lapeita Neongo as Helen of Troy.
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  Speaker 1: Right when commentator Matt Walsh is arguing that Niongo's portrayal
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  Speaker 1: of Helen of Troy undermines traditional beauty standards quote unquote,
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  Speaker 1: Lapita Neongo is stunning. I think we all know what
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  Speaker 1: he means is she's black, isn't it, Matt?
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  Speaker 2: I mean transgender.
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  Speaker 1: Actor Eliot Page is also copying it because he's playing
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  Speaker 1: a male soldier. Christopher Nolan's acknowledged the backlash, saying it
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  Speaker 1: comes with the territory. The Odyssey is in cinemas today
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  Speaker 1: and Benochet is interview it for us in about an
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  Speaker 1: hour from now.
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  Speaker 2: So taking all of that out of account is a
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  Speaker 2: good movie. That's what we'll find.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see and you know, remember it's Greek mythology. It's
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  Speaker 1: all made up stuff anyway. So you know, as for
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  Speaker 1: undermining traditional beauty standards.
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  Speaker 2: I know what they reckon.
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  Speaker 1: Helen of Troy really look like you've probably heard Channel
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  Speaker 1: seven has picked up I'm a Celebrity, Get me out
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  Speaker 1: of here after it was acced at ten. No word
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  Speaker 1: on whether Julia Morris and Robert Irwin are part of
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  Speaker 1: the package to continuous hosts, but in recent times a
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  Speaker 1: few new contenders to be dropped in the jungle have
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  Speaker 1: become available oka like Kyl Stefanovic, Carl Sandlanz.
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  Speaker 2: The thing is, you've got to be available.
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  Speaker 1: Phil Collins' debut solo album, Face Value, is turning forty
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  Speaker 1: five this year, and it is set to celebrate the
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  Speaker 1: anniversary with a four album deluxe vinyl.
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  Speaker 2: Box set, which will be available this September. It includes
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  Speaker 2: previously unreleased live recordings and outtake of Phil's cover of
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  Speaker 2: the Beatles Tomorrow Never Knows and the full version of
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  Speaker 2: Over the Rainbow. Face Value was the big turning point
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  Speaker 2: in Collins' career, selling over five million copies and featuring
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  Speaker 2: the hits like I Missed Again and the Big One
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  Speaker 2: The drum Bit.
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  Speaker 1: No introduction needed, No jacket required. A fifth installment in
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  Speaker 1: the animated film franchise Hotel Transylvania has been announced. The
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  Speaker 1: movies about Dracula, his daughter Mavis and their monstery mates
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  Speaker 1: has grossed just short of two billion dollars at the
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  Speaker 1: global box office. The new one will be out in
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  Speaker 1: October next year. And speaking of money generated by animated
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  Speaker 1: film franchise, as someone has done a deep dive, some
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  Speaker 1: kind of economist has done a deep dive into just
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  Speaker 1: how profitable Toy story has been when you take into
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  Speaker 1: account merch like clothing, dolls, and games and food, et cetera,
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  Speaker 1: theme parks, associated salaries, home rentals, and.
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  Speaker 2: Of course ticket sales. Care to take a stab.
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  Speaker 1: At just how much money that franchise has generated in
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  Speaker 1: worldwide economic activity? Talking in the billions, I'll take a
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  Speaker 1: step three or four, three or four billion, Yeah, seventy
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  Speaker 1: two get out of billion dollars. That's Ossie dollars fifty
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  Speaker 1: one American seventy two billion dollars.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's a lot of mcappy meals.
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  Speaker 1: Well that's over, yeah, and it's over thirty years now,
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  Speaker 1: and there's a lot of merch.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's what they come around all the time. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: And I'm to cocaine in a toy story cup and
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  Speaker 2: all the parts around the world.
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  Speaker 1: They're probably more money from the merchant associated stuff than
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  Speaker 1: the ticket sales.
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  Speaker 2: That's often the case, isn't it. There's been plenty of those,
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  Speaker 2: nice little earner, I'll say,